By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: September 23, 2009

The Serbian war crimes court on Tuesday acquitted two former policemen of collaborating in the killing of three Albanian-American brothers in 1999. The former policemen were accused of torture and other crimes while handing over the brothers to a special Serbian police unit that shot and killed them. The war crimes prosecutor's office said it would appeal the acquittal of the defendants, Sreten Popovic and Milos Stojanovic. The bodies of the brothers were discovered in 2001, bound and blindfolded in a mass grave, two years after they left New York to join rebels fighting for Kosovo's secession from Serbia.